Report: Biosciences an Ohio jobs engine

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A new report tracking the growth of Ohio’s bioscience industry through the last decade points to growth that well outpaced the state’s employment picture at large and translated into billions of dollars in economic impact.

Columbus-based industry advocate BioOhio in a report released Tuesday pegged bioscience industry payroll in the state at 55,465 jobs in 2008, up nearly 18 percent – or more than 8,000 jobs – from 2000 and 3 percent, or 1,500 jobs, ahead of 2007. Employment statewide from January 2000 to January 2008 grew a fraction, adding about 60,000 jobs overall.

The northeast corridor of the state remains the largest source of bioscience jobs and companies. But the report found that the central region, which includes the seven-county Central Ohio area and eight nearby counties, led the state for growth in the eight-year period. The region was home to nearly 14,700 bioscience jobs in 2008, up 44 percent from the beginning of the decade.

The central region employs about a quarter of all bioscience employees in the state and generated nearly $10 billion in direct output and indirect output by industries the trade supports.

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